His father had been badly wounded in the last war.

他父亲在上次战争中受了重伤。

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JUST as generals always plan to fight the last war, investors usually expect the last cycle to repeat itself.

正如将军们总是想着怎样才能把上一次仗打得更好，投资者也总是希望之前的经济周期能够再次出现。

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That dwindling minority of Britons, some 3 million, who lived through those six extraordinary years remember them as the most vivid moment in their lives and still refer to "the last war".

在那日益缩减的300万名经历了那不平凡的六年的少数英国人的记忆中，那是他们生命里最真切的日子。他们还将之称为“上一次战争”。

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Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

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He was killed on April 1st,1865,at the Battle of Five Oaks excuse me, at Five Forks, just west of Richmond, the last major engagement of the Civil War.

他最终死于1865年4月1日的五橡树战役,不好意思,是五岔口战役,就在里士满的西面,内战最后一场主要的会战

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Huge, and one of the things that I argue in this book and also in the Princeton Projiect on National Security which I co-directed with John Ikenberry over the last three years is we have been singel-mindedly focused on the war on terror.

很大，我在这本书中试图说明一点,在普林斯顿国家安全项目中也试着强调,这一项目在过去3年内由我和约翰伊肯伯里共同负责,那就是我们仅仅盯在了一点上,我们盯着恐怖主义战争不放。

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Generals are not the only ones guilty of trying to fight the last war.

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It had only been five years since we had finished fighting the last war.

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Wrong Threat Generals are not the only ones guilty of trying to fight the last war.

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